#12605 How Can I Help a Protestant Friend? Papacy and Infallibility - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How can I help a Protestant friend?” This question opens a discussion on addressing concerns about the papacy and its history, including the boundaries on questioning the Pope’s comments and the implications of Jesus’ statement about the gates of Hades. Other topics include the workings of assent with the Magisterium and the nature of infallible teachings.
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Questions Covered:
- 12:45 – Where are the boundaries on questioning the comments of the Pope?
- 22:26 – What does Jesus mean when he says “the gate of Hades” won’t prevail. Can these be lies?
- 33:22 – How can I help a Protestant friend whose greatest hurdle is papacy history and scandals?
- 40:42 – How does assent work with the Magisterium?
- 49:16 – Is there a list of the Infallible teachings?
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers live. I'm Cy Kellett, your host. |
| 0:36.2 | Joe Heschmire is our guest, and it's a good thing because we're going to talk about the early church. We're going to talk about the papacy, and he wrote a book about the early church. He wrote a book about the papacy. So if you've got especially papacy questions today, a papacy that has to do with popes in case that's a new one for you. You're welcome to call 8883187-884. |
| 0:55.9 | Joe himself is a shameless papist. |
| 0:58.9 | Shameless popery is his, what do you call it, podcast, his show, all of that. |
| 1:05.1 | YouTube channel, yes. |
| 1:06.8 | Joe Heschmire, welcome. |
| 1:08.3 | Thanks. |
| 1:08.6 | Good to be here. |
| 1:10.1 | You ready for difficult questions on the papacy? |
| 1:13.4 | We'll find out. |
| 1:15.4 | All right. |
| 1:16.3 | I was thinking maybe something more confident was going to come out, but all right, we'll find out. |
| 1:20.5 | Pride coming before the fall. |
| 1:22.1 | That's true. |
| 1:22.5 | I want to be open to the fact that I could be totally caught off guard. |
| 1:28.1 | 8883-1-8-7-884, the number. |
| 1:32.8 | If you're Catholic, if you're not Catholic, whatever. |
| 1:35.1 | If you've got a question about popes from the early ones all the way up until today, 8883187-884. |
| 1:42.8 | What's the evidence for the papacy in the early church, Joe? That's where I want to start with you today. |
| 1:47.6 | That's a good question. So let's talk about this in layers, because obviously we want to start with Scripture, and you see St. Peter has this special role. |
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